III. [Açvaghoṣa and the Buddhist Drama.]
1. [The Çāriputraprakaraṇa] 80
2. [The Allegorical and the Hetaera Dramas] 83
3. [The Language of the Dramas] 85
4. [The Metres] 89
IV. [Bhāsa.][[8]]
1. [The Authenticity of Bhāsa’s Dramas] 91
2. [The Date of Bhāsa’s Dramas] 93
3. [The Dramas and their Sources] 95
4. [Bhāsa’s Art and Technique] 105
5. [Bhāsa’s Style] 114
6. [The Language of the Plays] 120
7. [The Metres of the Dramas] 123
V. [The Precursors of Kālidāsa and Çūdraka.]
1. [The Precursors of Kālidāsa] 127
2. [The Authorship and Age of the Mṛcchakaṭikā] 128
3. [The Mṛcchakaṭikā] 131
4. [The Prākrits] 140
5. [The Metres] 142
VI. [Kālidāsa.]
1. [The Date of Kālidāsa] 143
2. [The Three Dramas of Kālidāsa] 147
3. [Kālidāsa’s Dramatic Art] 155
4. [The Style] 160
5. [The Language and the Metres] 166
VII. [Candra, Harṣa, and Mahendravikramavarman.]
1. [Candra or Candraka] 168
2. [The Authorship of the Dramas ascribed to Harṣa] 170
3. [The Three Dramas] 171
4. [Harṣa’s Art and Style] 175
5. [The Language and the Metres of Harṣa’s Dramas] 181
6. [Mahendravikramavarman] 182
VIII. [Bhavabhūti.]
1. [The Date of Bhavabhūti] 186
2. [The Three Plays] 187
3. [Bhavabhūti’s Dramatic Art and Style] 192
4. [The Language and the Metres] 203
IX. [Viçākhadatta and Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa.]
1. [The Date of Viçākhadatta] 204
2. [The Mudrārākṣasa] 205
3. [The Language and the Metres of the Mudrārākṣasa] 211
4. [The Date of Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa] 212
5. [The Veṇīsaṁhāra] 212
6. [The Language and the Metres of the Veṇīsaṁhāra] 219
X. [Murāri, Rājaçekhara, their Predecessors and Successors.][[9]]
1. [The Predecessors of Murāri] 220
2. [Murāri] 225
3. [The Anargharāghava] 226
4. [The Date of Rājaçekhara] 231
5. [The Dramas of Rājaçekhara] 232
6. [Bhīmaṭa and Kṣemīçvara] 239
XI. [The Decline of the Sanskrit Drama.]
1. [The Decadence of the Drama] 242
2. [The Nāṭaka] 244
3. [The Allegorical Nāṭaka] 251
4. [The Nāṭikā and the Saṭṭaka] 256
5. [The Prakaraṇa] 257
6. [The Prahasana and the Bhāṇa] 260
7. [Minor Dramatic Types] 264
8. [The Shadow Play] 269
9. [Dramas of Irregular Type] 270
XII. [The Characteristics and Achievement of the Sanskrit Drama] 276

PART III. [DRAMATIC THEORY]

XIII. [The Theory of the Dramatic Art.]
1. [The Treatises on Dramatic Art] 290
2. [The Nature and the Types of the Drama] 295
3. [The Subject Matter and the Plot] 296
4. [The Characters] 305
5. [The Sentiments] 314
6. [The Dramatic Styles and Languages] 326
7. [The Dance, Song, and Music] 338
8. [The Preliminaries and the Prologue] 339
9. [The Types of Drama] 345
10. [The Influence of Theory on Practice] 352
11. [Aristotle and the Indian Theory of Poetics] 355

PART IV. [DRAMATIC PRACTICE]

XIV. [The Indian Theatre.]
1. [The Theatre] 358
2. [The Actors] 360
3. [The Mise-en-scène and Representation of the Drama] 364
4. [The Audience] 369

[English Index] 373

[Sanskrit Index] 394 [[10]]

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ABBREVIATIONS

AID. Über die Anfänge des indischen Dramas, Munich, 1914.
AJP. American Journal of Philology.
AP. Agni Purāṇa, ed. BI.
BI. Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta.
BS. Bhāsa-Studien, Leipzig, 1918.
BSS. Bombay Sanskrit Series.
CHI. Cambridge History of India.
DR. Daçarūpa, cited from Hall’s ed. BI.
EI. Epigraphia Indica.
GGA. Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen.
GIL. Geschichte der indischen Litteratur, by M. Winternitz, Leipzig, 1904–22.
GN. Nachrichten der königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
GOS. Gaekwad’s Oriental Series.
GSAI. Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana.
HOS. Harvard Oriental Series.
IA. Indian Antiquary.
ID. Das indische Drama, Berlin, 1920.
IS. Indische Studien.
JA. Journal Asiatique.
JAOS. Journal of the American Oriental Society.
JBRAS. Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
JPASB. Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
JRAS. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
KF. Aufsätze zur Kultur- und Sprachgeschichte Ernst Kuhn gewidmet. Breslau, 1916.
KM. Kāvyamālā series, Bombay.
N. Nāṭyaçāstra.
R. Rasārṇavasudhākara, ed. TSS. 1916.
SBAW. Sitzungsberichte der königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
SD. Sāhityadarpaṇa, cited by the sections of the BI. ed.
SP. Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics, I, London, 1923.
TI. Le théâtre indien, Paris, 1890.
TSS. Trivandrum Sanskrit Series.
VOJ. Vienna Oriental Journal.
ZDMG. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft.